The American No Stories by Rupert Everett

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<b>'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, <i>Observer</i></b> <b> 'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, <i>The Times</i></b> <b>Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller</b>' <b>Hadley Freeman, <i>Sunday Times</i></b> <b>Eight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.</b> In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A Russian-American countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop. The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and th